Chapter 788: The Falling Sun-Demon is born from the heart

The news of Matsudaira Rongbao did not have any water at all, and the Manchurian Army, which had mobilized seven divisions and eleven brigades, marched completely according to the news of Matsudaira Rongbo. The secret envoys of the Military Intelligence Department had long known that Matsudaira Rongbao was unreliable, but they still leaked the information to Matsudaira Rongbao without reservation. As soon as the Japanese army was at the end of its rope, knowing the plan of the Manchurian Army, it was impossible to have any way to deal with it. Second, it was to increase the psychological pressure of the Meiji clique in Kyoto and provoke civil unrest in the Meiji government.

It was actually very easy for the Manchurian Army to defeat the Japanese army or break through some of the Japanese defenses, but it was not so easy to pacify the whole of Japan. Japan has a population of nearly 60 million, and it is one-fifth of the obedient babies who are willing to be obedient to the people, and the rest are diehards. As long as there are people in the Japanese imperial family who are hiding in various places to stir up trouble, they will definitely make endless trouble. If you want to completely settle Japan, you don't have to invest too much after the war, and the best way is to get certain forces in the Japanese imperial family to cooperate. Letting the Japanese imperial family fight among themselves is a good way to choose a puppet. Goheung Ah Da can learn from the routine of Japan's annexation of Korea more than 30 years later, first let Japan's hypocrisy exist for a while, and then thoroughly digest it.

In addition to finding puppets, the military side actually needs Japan's internal fighting, and surrendering soldiers without a fight is always the best choice for soldiers. At present, the total strength of the Japanese army is still more than 400,000, and excluding the 100,000 scattered troops scattered in various places, there are still more than 300,000 Japanese troops gathered near Kyoto. These people are not waste, their equipment has reached the world's first-class level, the level of training is also very high, and the level of loyalty and tenacity is even more first-class in the world. If the Manchurian Army did not have airships and tanks, which were weapons that were ahead of their time, it would not be particularly easy to defeat them. And even if there is an advantage in weapons and tactics, if you want to completely annihilate these Japanese forces, the Manchurian army will have to pay a great price. Rather than fighting with these desperate gangs, of course, it makes more sense to let them disintegrate internally.

Saigo Takamori strengthened his defense line in Kyoto for another half a month, and all kinds of desperate news came out. The Manchurian Army advanced in a big way, and the Japanese army, which had no power to fight back, was either completely annihilated or forced to surrender, and the prefectures of Fukushima and Mito in the northeast fell one after another, and all the prefectures north of Tokyo and Nagano fell. Four divisions and five brigades of the Manchurian Army in the northeast had already joined forces in Nagano, with a total strength of nearly 120,000, and had begun to move south in the direction of Toyama and Fukui. The 1st Division and 1st Brigade of the Manchurian Army, which landed in Shizuoka, also began to move south after being forced to land in Kofu and Yokohama, and the troops were directed at Nagoya. The most fierce offensive was the Manchurian Army, which landed on Hiroshima, and this commander, which was an all-Japanese army, worked hardest to fight its own motherland, and although the results were not as good as those of the northeastern divisions, they were not far behind.

"Asano Sohide, this Kanto samurai, is really worthy of his ancestor!" Looking at the battle report in his hand, Saigo Takamori and Tokugawa Keiki had the heart to vomit blood, and the samurai, who had never spoken ill of him, could not help but greet the ancestors of Asano.

"Asano is only the division commander of the Fifth Division of the Manchurian Marine Corps, he is not the commander-in-chief of the Southwest Manchurian Army!" Matsudaira Rongho has new information, originally these things are irrelevant, but he doesn't want Saigo Takamori to blame all the problems on the former shogunate group.

"Immediately see Shangwen?" Saigo Takamori remembered a former shogunate commander again.

"The commander-in-chief of the Southwest Manchurian Army is Takumi Takizawa, who was born in the Hizen Domain!" Matsudaira Rongho very much hopes that Saigo Takamori will find out that the Japanese who defected to the Manchurian Army are not only from their former shogunate forces, but also from the southwestern feudal domains.

"Takumi Takizawa, what kind of person is he, I don't seem to have heard of this person before. Sohide Asano is a veteran mercenary, and he immediately saw that Shangwen had excellent ability, how could this Takizawa Takumi be able to be above the two? Saigo Takamori was a little embarrassed, he seemed to be a little targeted at the people of the former shogunate, and it was no wonder that the sensitive Matsudaira Rongbao was unhappy. At the same time, he also wondered how the Hizen Domain didn't seem to have any talents, so how could there be such a big man as Takumi Takizawa.

"Takizawa Takumi graduated from the general class of the Manchurian Imperial Army University, and also studied in the Imperial Marine Warfare Department, and is currently a lieutenant general of the Manchurian Marine Corps, a member of the Manchurian clan, and has served as a ......" Matsudaira Rongbao knows Takizawa Takumi very well, and when those feudal soldiers of the Aizu Domain were trained in the mercenary division, they heard about the miraculous deeds of Takumi Takizawa.

"A member of the Manchurian clan?" Before Matsudaira could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Tokugawa Yoshiki, and Saigo Takamori was also curious about how a Japanese man could become a member of the Manchurian clan.

"Takizawa Takumi's wife is the cousin of His Royal Highness Guoxing, so Takizawa Takumi is a member of the Manchurian clan, and he is currently the only forehead in Manchuria, and his status is very respectful. He has not held many positions, but he has worked in the Manchurian General Staff Headquarters for a long time, and it is not known how capable this person is. The fact that he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Southwest Manchurian Army this time was not only because of his noble status, but also because of other reasons. Matsudaira said everything he could think of.

"The Manchurian Army in the southwest has two divisions and regiments dominated by Japanese traitors, as well as three elite Manchurian mixed brigades, with a total strength of more than 60,000 troops. His Royal Highness Guoxinga is a famous general in the world, and he will never easily deliver 60,000 troops to him just because Takizawa is his brother-in-law, which is really unpredictable! Saigo Takamori no longer mentions the question of his traitor origin, and now the highest-ranking traitor is from the Hizen Domain in the southwest, and Saigo has no penchant for smacking his mouth.

"Japanese soldiers, Japanese commanders, it's still a way to attack the heart!" Tokugawa Yoshiki wasn't very smart, but this time he guessed right.

When Saigo Takamori and the three were meditating on the defensive line, the Shinomiya family in Kyoto received letters from Manchurian envoys at the same time, and these superstitions written in Japanese were written by Lieutenant General Takumi Takizawa, commander-in-chief of the Southwest Army Group of the Manchurian Army. Takizawa's letter is very long, and it expresses a lot of meaning. He first introduced himself and his current family in harmony, and at the same time expressed his love for his homeland. Then Takizawa talked about Koko-a and Prince Aiko-nai, and talked about the love between the two husband and wife, raising eyebrows, and Goko's recent change in attitude towards Japan because of Aiko. Then Takizawa talked about the war, and Goxinga's use of force against Japan was completely out of good intentions. Meiji is not a Japanese royal blood at all, he is a usurper sinner, so Guoxing A Cai Xingbing is the source of the Yue family. In the end, there is the price, and Goxinga's request is only to settle the Meiji era, and then be succeeded by the real royal blood of any of the palace families. If the Imperial Families intended to replace him, Gokokoa would fully support the new emperor and lift all restrictions on Japan in Northern Manchukuo to assist Japan's development.

Takumi Takizawa's letter is very sincere, and the content is very affordable, but none of the palaces have a letter. It is not a matter of a day or two that Guo Xing's hatred of Japan has changed, and it will not change because of a Japanese brother-in-law and a Japanese daughter-in-law. If the palace family really betrays Meiji and becomes the new emperor, there will never be any good results, at most a puppet. Therefore, the four major palace families unanimously chose to be loyal to Meiji, and presented the secret letters they received to Emperor Meiji.

Meiji praised the loyalty of the palace family, and then scolded Kawaji Toshira, who was in charge of police affairs. The activities of the Manchurian envoys in Kyoto were so rampant, whether it was the palace family or Matsudaira Rongbo, these secret envoys could see whoever they wanted, and they could send whatever they wanted, and the police couldn't even catch a ghost, which was really unbearable. Now that three-fifths of the country has been lost, and the Manchurian Army is still advancing step by step, let these secret envoys continue to toss, and Japan will completely stop cooking.

Kawaro Toshira, who was reprimanded by the emperor, searched vigorously, but he was about to turn Kyoto around, and he still didn't find a single hair. These Manchurian envoys seem to be invisible people, appearing when they say they appear, and disappearing without a trace when they say they disappear. Kawaro Toshira, who was at a loss, even asked Saigo Takamori to transfer troops for help, but still found nothing. How did he know that the agents of the Manchurian Military Intelligence Bureau had been lurking several years in advance, and had long been integrated with the locals, and they had very complete special service standards, which were caught by a group of laymen.

There is no result on Kawaro Toshira's side, and there is a new situation in Kyoto, this time the problem is in the army. Not long after the four major palace families confessed to Meiji, rumors appeared in the army that the palace families had confirmed that Meiji was not the blood of Emperor Komei, and that they wanted to depose Meiji and establish a new monarch, and then make peace with the Manchurians and rebuild Japan. Saigo Takamori dealt with the rumors in a timely manner, and soon the army calmed down, but there were new rumors among the people. New rumors say that a certain descendant of the Japanese imperial family, who had reached a consensus with the Manchurians and had obtained the allegiance of Asano Munehide, Tachimi Naofumi and others, would launch a coup d'état and execute Meiji.

The source of these rumors could not be found at all, but the speed of their spread was extremely fast, and the consequences were very bad, causing chaos in the hearts of the Japanese military and the people, and Saigo Takamori and others had little success after several efforts. This is actually very simple, Japan has no hope of victory, this is something that everyone knows. The soldiers did not want to die in vain, and the people did not want to be cannon fodder, everyone hoped that the war would end and the Manchurians would let Japan go. And these rumors can just meet everyone's demands, so everyone is happy to spread it, and some imperfections in the rumors have also been subjectively corrected by people. After thousands of years of faithfulness education, they could not betray Meiji, so they could only pin their hopes on rumors, even if it was a prayer.

The best way to deal with this kind of rumor is to divert the contradictions, and if there is no transfer, it can only be dealt with coldly. At the suggestion of Hirobumi Ito, Takamori Saigo, and others, the Meiji government did take measures to treat it coldly, but the results were not very good, but the rumors were also suppressed. The people have stopped, but Meiji's heart is churning, and there may not be no reason for nothing, and Meiji, who trembles every day, is very sensitive to any threat. Although the palace family is very frank, this confession is not necessarily a means for them to protect themselves.

Since Meiji ascended the throne, he has been very alienated from the four major palace families, as well as some members of the imperial family who are close to him. This time, it was also because he was afraid that they would fall into the hands of the Manchurians and become puppets, so he gathered all the members of the imperial family in Kyoto, and Meiji didn't know anything about them. The more I thought about it, the more unsteady Meiji became, and some terrible thoughts inevitably arose in my heart.